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FEATURED ARTICLES *** The Protection Project - The Paul H. www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/argentina.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Along the border between Report on the Worst Forms of Child Labour Compiled by the
Global March Against Child Labour [PDF] The Global March Against Child Labour Resource Centre, 20
September 2004 www.globalmarch.org/resourcecentre/world/argentina.pdf [accessed 13 March 2011] CHILD PROSTITUTION - The number of prostituted children is reported to be increasing at an alarming rate and their average age is decreasing. Argentina has a well-documented child sex trade related to the thriving sex-tourism sector. Argentina is one of the favored destinations of pedophile sex tourists from Europe and the United States. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/argentina.htm [accessed 19 January 2011] INCIDENCE AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children in Argentina are
involved in prostitution and sex tourism, and there are isolated reports of
their involvement in pornography and drug trafficking. Children are
trafficked to Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61713.htm [accessed 19 January 2011] SECTION 6
WORKER RIGHTS – [d]
CONAETI worked with unions and other groups to train rural child labor
monitors, and with provincial authorities in the tri-border area with Concluding Observations of the
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, April 10, 2002 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/3567bf5c062c819e41256c5d0043aa0b?OpenDocument [accessed 19 January 2011] [60] The Committee is concerned
that the phenomenon of child prostitution, especially in big cities, is
increasing. It further notes that, although a National Plan of Action to
Combat Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children was adopted in 2000,
coordinated policies and programs on this issue have yet to be formulated. Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report on
implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] ECPAT International, November 2001 http://www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13 September 2011] [B] COUNTRY UPDATES – ARGENTINA – Argentina has developed a
national plan of action against CSEC calling for six main areas of action:
awareness raising and prevention; information and training; improving
coordination through the strengthening of networks; strengthening the ability
of children and adolescents to recognize situations where they are at risk of
commercial sexual exploitation; legislation and legal procedures; and
research. Within each area of action, there are specific objectives and
activities. Report by Special Rapporteur [DOC] U.N. Economic and Social Council, Commission on Human
Rights, Fifty ninth session, 6 January 2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 29 March 2011] [27] The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/argentina.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Along the border between Report On The Worst Forms Of
Child Labour - 2004 [PDF] The Global March Against Child Labour, 20 September 2004 www.globalmarch.org/resourcecentre/world/argentina.pdf [accessed 29 March 2011] CHILD PROSTITUTION - The number of prostituted
children is reported to be increasing at an alarming rate and their average
age is decreasing. Report On The Worst Forms Of
Child Labour - 2005 The Global March Against Child Labour, 2005 www.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/argentina.html [accessed 29 March 2011] MEET A CHILD - Fernanda
Aguirre, age 13, was kidnapped into forced prostitution in CHILD PROSTITUTION - Child and adolescent victims
(of varying ages) of commercial sexual exploitation have been found within
overt spaces for commercial sex: streets, service stations, plazas, and
parks. Victims of CSEC have also been
found within covert spaces for commercial sex such as: saunas, brothels,
whiskey bars, massage parlours, etc, within each of
the cities studied by UNICEF. Child Prostitution in La Nación, May 13, 2001 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 September 2011] Research undertaken for UNICEF
Argentina has revealed an increase in the extent of child and adolescent
prostitution in the country. While quantitative data remains elusive, the
research concludes that the presence of young persons in the prostitution ‘circuit’
is not insignificant or merely isolated cases. Child Prostitution Shadow Villanueva, Founder, Darkness Against Child Abuse
DACA www.magickalshadow.com/daca/chlidprostitution.html [accessed 29 March 2011] The Ashgate
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